oops, forgot the link for the mentioned thread:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71877
> > > in my experience lavc has big trouble with noisy sources,
> > well, VHS is noisy :(
> >
> > i'm not sure if i should use higher resolution.
> > isn't width=768:height=576 the maximum of the VHS source?
> >
> > i'll try with xvid tonight.
> >
> > could anybody tell me what the swicth and argument would be for
> > xvid instead
> > libavcodec?
> > i'm a mandrake newbie, and i even don't know if i have a xvid
> codec... :)
>> i remember a lot of discussion, about the resolution that could "describe"
> vhs..
>> basically, vhs surely doesn't have the highest resolution. people argument
> between 320x240 and 640x480.
>> well, you could run some test-captures with different resolutions and
> compare for yourself.
>> in general i would maybe use 640x480, capture in mpeg1 or huffyuff and use
> some noisefilters on the capture.avi, rescale to a smaller resolution and
> keep the result.
>> if the material is not that important, i might capture to any smaller res.
> right away.
>> what really seems very strange to me is that video doesn't exeed a certain
> filesize at full resolution, since my experience with xvid and vhs sources
> is that you get unbelievable large files caused by all the noise..
>> and for getting into xvid.. i rarely used it under linux, since
> encoding is
> way more comfortable with windows (sadly..). this guide
>http://www.doom9.org/xvid-vdub-final.htm might give you some nice insights
> into the different xvid-options and what they actually do.
>> ..and here is a thread over at doom9's forum that should give you
> some good
> ideas on switches for xvid under linux, 1 or 2 pass and how to do
> it and so
> on.
>> surely youhave to install xvid and recompile mplayer with xvid-support.
>>> have fun!,
> /jc
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